Someone guessed the rest of the link, and boom... despite CIG quickly shutting down the link, 48GB of work in progress assets have already been downloaded and shared across the web.

Space sim Star Citizen is being developed in a modified version of the Cryengine, so Youtube is rife with videos of people uploading those WIP assets into Crytek's engine to gawp at them in all their barely-finished wonder. CIG is presumably none too happy about this, but the Kraken's been unleashed already, unfortunately.

You can see a sample of the leaked assets above, showing off a WIP version of the Bengal carrier. Aside from some missing textures, I'd say those big capital ships are looking pretty damned solid. You'll be able to walk around in that! And land ships. And use the vending machines. Probably.

The studio's yet to officially respond to the leak. What they HAVE been happy to discuss recently is Star Marine, the game's FPS module. Head through > the link for the full run-down on the ground shooting portion of CIG's wildly ambitious (it should be, with a budget of over $80 million) “First Person Universe”.

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Wintermist

Here's a tip if you just want to explore the new ships and fly them, load 'em up in a private game for the Arena rather than in the Universe, performance is still atrocious in the Universe but in the Arena you will get the full FPS, and it's a treat.

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Wintermist

All the latest news and videos regarding technology and so on has been looking fantastic. I've no doubts at all about this game being something I will "live" in when it's out. I'm a sucker for social gaming too, just doing things multicrew is really something I'm looking forward to a lot. We are a bunch of friends already set to go with a variety of ships for different roles. Together we can serve any role, whatever we may feel like that particular day.

nocutius

Yea but you wouldn't do that with a bad product would you, some companies have review embargoes while SC does things the opposite way. They could be working a bit faster though, I get nothing from them getting sleep every day or having a private life :).